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Objectives: Diabetes is a complex disease associated with cardiovascular complications. This study compared baroreceptor sensitivity (BRS) in diabetic rats with and without anti-hypertensive treatment. Methods: Diabetes (induced by intraperitoneal injection of streptozotocin at 6 weeks of age) and control...

Background: The aortic valve is normally tricuspid but may vary in that it can be made up of 1, 2 or 4 leaflets with each of these often associated with aortopathy, most commonly aortic dilatation. In patients with a bicuspid valve this association has been explained in part by molecular changes taking...

Objective: Patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) have an increased risk of CVD, but previous studies have not shown a worsened risk profile regarding traditional cardiovascular risk factors. The objective was to investigate whether baseline CRP predicts future increased central arterial stiffness. Methods:...

Networks of networks paradigm was introduced to explore the rendezvous problems of leader-follower multi-agent system, where the rendezvous actors were categorized into the target object, the leader agents, the informed follower agents and the isolated follower agents, respectively. Then, three humanized...

As a knowledge representation tool, ontologies have been widely applied in many fields such as knowledge management and information integration, etc. Ontology measurement is an important challenge in the field of knowledge management in order to manage the development of ontology based systems and reduce...

Let F(Sn ) be the space of tensor densities on Sn of degree . We consider this space as an induced module of the nonunitary spherical series of the group SO0(n+1, 1) and classify (so(n+1, 1), SO(n+1))-simple and unitary submodules of F(Sn ) as a function of .

The Navier-Stokes equation driven by heat conduction is studied. As a prototype we consider Rayleigh-Bénard convection, in the Boussinesq approximation. Under a large aspect ratio assumption, which is the case in Rayleigh-Bénard experiments with Prandtl number close to one, we prove the existence of...

Bangladesh is currently going through a nutritional transition with rapid increase in overnutrition while undernutrition is still remaining prevalent. Nevertheless, population-based data on demographic, socio-economic and lifestyle factors associated with underweight and overweight among adult population...

Our understanding on the mechanisms of graft versus tumor/leukemia (GvT/GvL) and graft versus host (GvH) effects has tremendously evolved within the past decades. During the search for a mechanism that augments GvT/GvL without increasing GvH effects, natural killer (NK) cells have clearly attracted attention....

This study proposes an integrated model for the deployment of multiagent resources for resisting outside threats. The proposed two-stage model applies the divide-and-conquer strategy to solve the resources allocation problem. First, the interactive actions between an external attack and a response agent...

Adducin is a cytoskleton protein, which functions within the cells as a heterodimer composed of a combination of three subunits, α, β and γ. Each of these subunits is coded by genes (ADD1, ADD2, ADD3) mapping to different chromosomes. Mutation in ADD1 Gly460Trp polymorphism is associated with increased...

The Hirota equation is reduced to a pair of complex Finite-dimensional Hamiltonian Systems (FDHSs) with real-valued Hamiltonians, which are proven to be completely integrable in the Liouville sense. It turns out that involutive solutions of the complex FDHSs yield finite parametric solutions of the Hirota...

This paper proposes a method of detecting a person fallen on the ground and its head and lower body from aerial images. The study intends to automate discovering victims of disasters such as earthquakes from areal images taken by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Rotation-invariant histogram of oriented...

Objectives: Fibulin-1 is an extracellular matrix protein that is increased in the arterial wall in diabetes. It is also present in plasma, where it is positively related to blood pressure and predicts mortality. In addition, plasma levels are associated with heart stiffness indices. The aim of this study...

Objectives: Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a cluster of ≥3 risk factors (RF). The presence of subclinical organ damage increases the risk of cardiovascular disease in patients with MS. Arterial stiffness and wave reflections are independent predictors of cardiovascular disease. The aim of our study was to...

Objectives: High blood pressure (BP) levels have been reported to have an inverse association with the health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Moreover, the value of central beyond peripheral haemodynamics has been illustrated by a series of studies. We sought to investigate potential correlations between...

An efficient process of emergency evacuation must be guided. In the event of an evacuation instruction, a significant amount of time is spent by evacuees looking for a place of relative safety or an exit. Due to the ensuing stress and confusion evacuees try to follow others, consequently, all the exits...

Nowadays, the acute and chronic adverse health effects caused by benzene exposure have attracted wide attention. In this paper, we evaluate the health risk based on the four-step method recommended by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). We present a method using the Monte Carlo Simulating Software...

In this paper, explicit expressions and some recurrence relations are derived for marginal and joint moment generating functions of generalized order statistics from extended type II loglogistic distribution. Further the results are deduced for moments of k -- th record values and ordinary order statistics.

Our research has been focused on developing human-robot interactions, the robots need to perform a high level of intellectual activity and user compatibility. Therefore, we considered the primary structure of a conscious human/animal action, which can be represented by the sequence process, Perception...

Image processing applications have played a vital role in modern life and they are required to be well tested due to their significance and human dependence on them. Testing of image processing application is difficult due to complex nature of images in terms of their generation and evaluation. The presented...

There has been little empirical research and theory development around how small to medium (SME) sized non–profits are using social media, or how they are attempting to manage the risks associated with social media use, especially in the area of social media policy development. As such, the key aim of...

This paper proposes a modification method of a source code to correspond with a modified model in MDA. The proposed method generates, translates, and modifies EAD (Extended Activity Diagram). Also, it generates a source code from the activity diagram. We use a simple ATM example to confirm availability...

We present a detailed computation leading to an explicit formula for the fourth Hamitonian in the series of constants of motion with which any flow of the Camassa-Holm hierarchy is equipped, and explain the inherent difficulties in achieving such explicit expressions for invariants higher in the series.

The inheritance of symmetries of partial differential equations occurs in a different manner from that of ordinary differential equations. In particular, the Lie algebra of the symmetries of a partial differential equation is not sufficient to predict the symmetries that will be inherited by a resulting...

In this paper, a direct formula is proposed for design of robust PID controller for sun tracker system using quadratic regulator approach with compensating pole (QRAWCP). The main advantage of the proposed approach is that, there is no need to use recently developed iterative soft computing techniques...

In this paper, we propose new methods to represent interdependence among alternative attributes and experts’ opinions by constructing Choquet integral using interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy numbers. In the sequel, we apply these methods to solve the multiple attribute group decision-making (MAGDM)...

Of the more than 1.4 million blind children worldwide, 75% live in developing countries. To reduce the prevalence of childhood blindness and associated diseases, attention is given to understanding the perceptions and level of awareness held by caregivers. This understanding can enable tailored health...

Several digital watermarking techniques for audio files have been proposed for hiding data for protecting their copyrights. There is a tradeoff between the quality of watermarked audio and the tolerance of watermarks to signal processing methods, such as compression. To overcome the inevitable tradeoff,...

Neural Networks have been performing state of the art for almost a decade now; when it comes to classification and prediction domains. Within last few years, neural networks have been improved tremendously and their performance is even better than humans in some domains, e.g. AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol and...

In actuarial literature, we come across a diverse range of probability distributions for fitting insurance loss data. Popular distributions are lognormal, log-t, various versions of Pareto, log-logistic, Weibull, gamma and its variants and a generalized beta of the second kind, among others. In this...

In this paper, we describe a set of designs of social playware by using the Moto Tiles. We tried to demonstrate the importance of the development of social playware by designing a number of social games that people can play together on one single tool. The design envisions play that mediates coordination...

Plasma cell leukemia (PCL) is an aggressive hematological malignancy characterized by an uncontrolled clonal proliferation of plasma cells (PCs) in the bone marrow and peripheral blood. PCL has been defined by an absolute number of circulating PCs exceeding 2.0 × 109/L and/or >20% PCs in the total...

Background: A systematic review with meta-analysis was conducted to assess the association of glucocorticoids use with the likelihood of all-cause mortality in cases with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Methods: Databases and cross-referencing were searched for observational studies about patients...

In this paper we construct a new solution which represents Pollard-like three-dimensional nonlinear geophysical internal water waves. The Pollard-like solution includes the effects of the rotation of Earth and describes the internal water wave which exists at all latitudes across Earth and propagates...

Background: As sub Saharan Africa (sSA) goes through demographic and epidemiological transition, accurate data on disease prevalence are required to guide allocation of scarce health resources between declining but still important infectious disease and emerging chronic conditions such as hypertension....

Background: The determinants of aortic stiffness have been elucidated in several studies, while few data are available for carotid stiffness. Aim of the study was to identify the main determinants of carotid arterial stiffness parameters in a general population in Northern-Italy(Vobarno Study). Methods:183subjects(61%...